RECORD
True Blue
record
True Blue
Release Year
30 June 1986
Recorded Location
Channel Recording Studios, Los Angeles, California
Format(s)
Vinyl | Casette | CD | Streaming
Writers
Madonna | Stephen Bray | Patrick Leonard | Gardner Cole | Peter Rafelson | Bruce Gaitsch
Producers
Madonna | Stephen Bray | Patrick Leonard
Label
Sire Records
TRACKLIST
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Notes
True Blue is the record where Madonna’s ambition became unmistakably global. Brighter, broader and more polished than what came before, it moves confidently between dance-pop, romantic balladry and Latin-inflected pop while sharpening her instincts as both songwriter and producer. With “Live to Tell”, “Papa Don’t Preach”, “Open Your Heart”, “True Blue” and “La Isla Bonita”, the album transformed enormous popularity into something more permanent: international pop authority.
THE STORY
A reflection on the record — what it meant, what it revealed, what it left behind.
